Sidney Hillman, able little Lithuanian-born leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (membership: 225,000), last week emerged from WPA headquarters. He had just been discussing a new, shiny and portentous proposition with WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Said he emerging: "It will be some time before the proposal goes through—if it ever does." But he made no secret of the details of his scheme.
In the clothing business, as in the wheat business, the cotton business, and many another business, a surplus of products has piled up. In New York, for example, there are...
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